Steiger v. Prather

In the year 1881 appellant was the owner of certain property near Springfield, known as the Hominy Mill property, consisting of twenty acres of land, mill and machinery for carrying on the milling business. The water for the use of the boilers was obtained from wells on the premises, and, as a reserve, there was a two-inch iron pipe laid in the ground extending some three quarters of a mile to the city water works. In that year appellee, Prather, and others, leased these premises, took possession and continued to occupy them until the 16th of April, 1882, when the mill was destroyed by fire.

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